tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106066012015-02-25T07:29:56.651-08:00CanadaGenealogy, or, 'Jane's Your Aunt'Canadian Genealogy & Women's History: Current Ideas, Information & ProjectsM. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.comBlogger595125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-11612088977352169412015-02-01T14:04:00.003-08:002015-02-01T14:04:56.976-08:00Ten (10) Rules for a Productive Genealogy Week<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GxUeO6Qxh7g/VM6R7vt3x9I/AAAAAAAAc20/6l9LZX0L8Uc/s1600/a020982.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GxUeO6Qxh7g/VM6R7vt3x9I/AAAAAAAAc20/6l9LZX0L8Uc/s1600/a020982.jpg" height="224" width="320" /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>&nbsp;"10 acres - Olivet Cherry spraying outfit, Kelowna, B.C."</i> 1900-1910. Photographer, John Woodruff (1859-1914).</span> </b>Credit: Canada. Dept. of Mines and Resources / Library and Archives Canada / PA-020982. John Woodruff apparently took many photography trips for the Canadian government. If anyone has more information about him, please contact me.<sup>1</sup></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><sup>&nbsp;My computer found this list which it says I wrote 2 years ago. Post-New Year's resolution blues maybe?</sup><br /><br /><sup>This started out, I think, as a list of only 5 because that was the title. This is in fun, of course. (But a couple of these really do work, especially #8. And I know I need to take #7 to heart.)</sup></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><sup>1. Don't get yourself into any dull routines, like usually getting started on your biggest (or worst) project first thing in the morning. Life is just too crazy to plan.</sup><br /><br /><sup>2. Forget about putting away all that stuff in piles on your desk. These things are all important; you'll need them soon and it's easier for you to remember how far down the pile they are than which shelf or file they belong in.</sup><br /><br /><sup>3. Check your e-mail, Facebook and Twitter accounts constantly. You never know when something (or someone!) exciting might pop up.</sup><br /><br /><sup>4. Try not to even think beyond today's deadlines – one day's work is more than enough to worry about.<br />&nbsp;</sup><br /><sup>5. When you think of a new project, get started on it right away! Don't wait to finish all those others half-done.<br />&nbsp;</sup><br /><sup>6. Never make a list with more than one day's to-dos. It just looks 'too busy' to see all your work laid out neatly with daily/weekly tasks, objectives and goals.</sup><br /><sup><br />7. Taking a stretch or snack break interrupts your work; don't do it. And don't take a day off with friends either. After all, they'll always be there when you do really need them.<br />&nbsp;</sup><br /><sup>8. Read a novel every chance you get. You'll always find a good quote or idea.<br />&nbsp;</sup><br /><sup>9. Don't ask for advice or look for help for a task or project. You can figure it out faster all on your own – right?<br />&nbsp;</sup><br /><sup>10. Remember 'life is just a bowl of cherries'. Oops, I don't really like cherries much, but eating <i>Prunus avium</i> or <i>Prunus cerasus</i> is much better than contemplating a 'chair of bowlies', especially in a pie.<br /><br /><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; References</b><br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries",Jack Hylton, 1931: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x4U1NiJ7PI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x4U1NiJ7PI</a><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Life is just a bowl of cherries: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Just_a_Bowl_of_Cherries">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Just_a_Bowl_of_Cherries</a> <br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A Tale Of Pits and Stems in Paradise (and a recipe), Green Bin: <a href="http://meandmygreenbin.blogspot.ca/2012/07/cherries.html">http://meandmygreenbin.blogspot.ca/2012/07/cherries.html</a><br /><br /><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Note</b><br /><br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <sup>1</sup> "Commissioned Photography" by Jim Burant, Library and Archives Canada (LAC), in <a href="https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/immigrants/021017-1700-e.html">Moving Here, Staying Here</a>, on-line&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; exhibit.</sup></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><sup>&nbsp;</sup> </span></div><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-71456039995869347302015-01-07T07:41:00.000-08:002015-01-07T07:41:01.371-08:00Bonne Année! New Year, new genealogy plans.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nvDv-M8wDLU/VK1AwPJ7yjI/AAAAAAAAczY/ZY1KmNLKq5E/s1600/Bonne-Annee-PC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nvDv-M8wDLU/VK1AwPJ7yjI/AAAAAAAAczY/ZY1KmNLKq5E/s1600/Bonne-Annee-PC.JPG" height="204" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Bonne Année</i>, postcard mailed in 1909 to Nimes, France.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">From my 'family tree' postcard collection. Carte Postale; publisher's mark <i>"H. K. C."</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For me, it has been a very slow start to 2015 as I have been sick, although even while too ill to work or even read, it seemed I had a lot of plans going through my mind. Once I woke up determined to officially change my name (an idea that lingers); another time I decided to swap rooms (I think as both my room and the library are full of&nbsp; `stuff`).&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I`ve given up that last idea but if some young`un turns up soon I may ask to have some furniture moved around. Once I was getting better, that swap idea did seem to make <a href="http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-doover-week-1-28-january-2015/" target="_blank">Thomas MacEntee`s 2015 Genealogy Do-Over 13 week plans</a> more appealing. People are adapting this to their own situations, so I will do that too.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Just before Christmas, after reading quite a lot of how-to-dos, I had set up a brand new set of geographical and family computer folders and a new (still empty) Legacy software database for my recently launched <a href="http://canadagenealogy.blogspot.ca/p/saggers-one-name-study.html" target="_blank">SAGGERS surname study</a>.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I then spent a few happy hours adding new-to-me newspaper stories (mainly to do with WW I) and I had also set up a SAGGERs community on the <a href="https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/" target="_blank">Lives of World War I</a> website.&nbsp; And I had double checked my marriage information for my known Canadian Saggers families, intending to submit this to the<a href="http://one-name.org/" target="_blank"> Guild of One-Name Studies</a>.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Oh, yes, I had also decided to start using Clooz for the study and Evernote too and planned to spend a day learning more about using each of these two programmes.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This all came to a crashing halt - now I really need to get myself going again.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">So, for my `2015 Genealogy Do-Over` I will concentrate only on the above. This should give me a good start to the study but will no doubt enliven my other family history work, especially in Legacy, as since I started in the olden days `before PCs and Macs`, I have never gone back and added media to my older entries. That could be my next do-over, but not quite yet :-)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thomas`s&nbsp;<a href="http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-doover-schedule-topics/" target="_blank"> Genealogy Do-Over</a> has certainly struck a chord with many. Have a look at his plan for the 13 weeks. I particularly like that he`s built in time for thinking and planning. And yes, there is a Facebook group and already lots of posts and additional activities. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Interested? There`s still time for you to join in. Now I'm off to sweep up my desk. And to slot my new SAGGERS study folders into Dropbox so there won't be any excuse not to file even when I'm away from home.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-40104790711266929292014-12-27T07:30:00.003-08:002014-12-27T07:31:37.856-08:0012 Days of Christmas - Guild of One-Name Studies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H2TCXP-9zjQ/VJ7PiABcerI/AAAAAAAAcUg/ywaxr2vi1LQ/s1600/holly-525806_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H2TCXP-9zjQ/VJ7PiABcerI/AAAAAAAAcUg/ywaxr2vi1LQ/s1600/holly-525806_640.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></div>&nbsp; <br />The Guild of One-Name Studies has a <a href="http://one-name.org/the-twelve-days-of-christmas-guild-style-day-3/" target="_blank">'12 Days of Christmas'</a> series right now.<br /><br />Follow along to see the many Yule related surnames Guild members are researching.&nbsp; (Links to the first in the series are on the bottom of the webpage.)<br /><br />Alas, I'm pretty sure the only Christmassy surname I have in our trees is - CHRISTMAS!<br />But that is a very good one, I'll admit.<br /><br />My great great aunt, Ellen Saggers, married Jesse Christmas&nbsp; 21st of June, 1862 at Tewin Parish Church in Hertfordshire, England. <br /><br />And yes, both CHRISTMAS and now <a href="http://one-name.org/name_profile/saggers/" target="_blank">SAGGERS</a> (mine) are surname studies registered with the Guild.M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-59572955134183345562014-12-25T00:18:00.000-08:002014-12-25T00:18:57.959-08:00Na's Christmas card list - 1945One of my often neglected personal projects is to transcribe more family documents. Among the most useful things I inherited, genealogically speaking, were a few address books. Sometimes I wish I'd seen Na's while she was around to answer questions, although her writing is pretty clear. <br /><br />The latest one I'm doing is a little notebook from my maternal grandparents used in the 1940s mostly to list letters received and sent. How quaint these lists must seem to some! Will genealogists a hundred years forward analyze computer lists of&nbsp; our 'Merry Christmas' tweets and Facebook 'Happy New Year' updates, I wonder?<br /><br />At this time, my grandparents, Amy (n<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">ée </span>Irwin) and Walter Scott, were living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where grandpa was working for Dominion Glass. In 1945, my mother, their only child, then in the Canadian Army, was still in Washington, DC, USA. Her name isn't on this list, but there is another list for letters sent and received in December - they had sent her 3 letters in December and an <i>"Xmas box"</i>.<br /><br />It appears that this list is for <b>mailed cards</b>, so other cards were likely hand delivered.<br /><br />The following names are from my Na's handwritten list of 46 names, almost all surnames, for cards and letters sent <i>"for Xmas 1945"</i>. I'm transcribing all names from the book, cross referencing them with other lists and building a FAN list for my grandparents, but this is the only Christmas list.&nbsp; (A FAN list is for Friends, Associates, Neighbours - a research technique made popular by Elizabeth Shown Mills.<sup>1</sup>)<br /><br />I do know who almost all these people must have been, although there are a few left to verify.&nbsp; Many of these cards and letters went to family and friends in Newdale, Manitoba, Canada where my grandmother was born and my grandparents had previously lived. If you are interested in Newdale, please see my <a href="http://newdalembgenealogy.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Newdale Genealogy</a> website.<br /><br />The three with just their given names, Ann, Hattie and Sam, were my grandpa Scott's sisters and brother; Irwin, St. B. was F. W. Irwin in St. Boniface, Manitoba whose address is given on another page in the book. (The ones that interested me most were the Martin and Pollock names. More about those another time.)<br /><br />If you think there's a connection here, please be in touch.<br /><br /> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="2" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"> <colgroup><col width="147"></col><col width="86"></col></colgroup> <tbody><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20" width="147"><span style="font-size: small;">Lavery </span></td> <td align="LEFT" width="86"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Congdon </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Young </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Stewart</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Laurence</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Irwin</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Carmichael</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Rose</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">McCallum</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Macmorine</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Pollock</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Pattison</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Ann </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Hattie </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Sam </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Jardine</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Redpath</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">McNichol</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Grayston</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Mein</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Adams</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Graham</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Hawryluk</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Stewart</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Duthie</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">English</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Kingdon</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">McTavish (Grace)</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Kaatz</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Martin</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Riches </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Nixon</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Sing </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Irwin St. B</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Carmichael M. G.</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Drummond</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">L</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Walkey </span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">McTavish Eva</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Dale</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Brock</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Hodges</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Clarke</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">McT, Myrt</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Wiggins</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">LeRoy</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Laurence D.</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr><tr> <td align="LEFT" height="20"><span style="font-size: small;">Myler</span></td> <td align="LEFT"><span style="font-size: small;">C</span></td> </tr></tbody></table><br /><sup>1</sup> See Elizabeth Shown Mills website, <a href="http://historicpathways.com/" target="_blank">Historic Pathways</a>, for more about the FAN principle. M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-48413981142389880672014-12-24T09:34:00.004-08:002014-12-24T09:34:59.944-08:00All I Want for Christmas - Blog Caroling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u797v9bO1a4/VJr2Dyh3-iI/AAAAAAAAcTE/5C363gaeeXQ/s1600/BlogSongBook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Footnote Maven's Blog Caroling logo" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u797v9bO1a4/VJr2Dyh3-iI/AAAAAAAAcTE/5C363gaeeXQ/s1600/BlogSongBook.jpg" height="200" title="Footnote Maven's Blog Caroling" width="154" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br />In honour of the season, once again <a href="http://www.footnotemaven.com/" target="_blank">Footnote Maven is sponsoring Blog Caroling for the geneabloggers.</a> I'm a bit late singing along, but here goes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>All I want for Christmas is - SAGGERS</i> <br /><br /> <div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>All I want for Christmas is lots of Saggers, </i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>lots of Saggers, </i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>many Saggers!</i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>They can be from anywhere, I don't care,</i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>outer space, </i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Anyplace! </i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i><br /></i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>No matter spelt Sigger, Sogger, </i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Saggars, or Laggers, or the research muddy.</i></div><i></i><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i>Just send me LOTS of SAGGERS for my study!</i></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Hear someone else sing the original song, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" which is only a bit older than I am. (We're now classics.)</div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Warning - TOO CUTE! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI02_UJ1C6I" target="_blank">Click here to smile. </a></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div>As some will realize this song brazenly promotes <a href="http://www.canadagenealogy.blogspot.ca/p/saggers-one-name-study.html" target="_blank">my 'new' Saggers One-Name Study or Surname Study</a>. <br /><br />Happy Christmas, Grandma Sarah!<br />(No, sorry, there's none of your Dandelion wine left for the toast. But I have some Islay whiskey for your pudding, Can't leave out other grandma's side of the family.)<br /> <div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-76795779653920290422014-11-23T11:01:00.000-08:002014-11-23T11:01:54.656-08:00Places That Mattered to the Rogers / Scott family, Vancouver BC <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkZgOQvt8v0/VHIq3GmVgFI/AAAAAAAAb8w/D8fNmcqMM4U/s1600/Carnegie_Vancouver-PC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZkZgOQvt8v0/VHIq3GmVgFI/AAAAAAAAb8w/D8fNmcqMM4U/s1600/Carnegie_Vancouver-PC.JPG" height="204" width="320" /></a></div><h4 style="text-align: center;"><i>City Hall and Carnegie Library, Vancouver, B. C.&nbsp;</i></h4><h4 style="text-align: center;">Coloured postcard; divided back; private collection. A "B" in a circle card; #35.</h4><br />The Vancouver Heritage Foundation will soon add the Commodore Ballroom to the Foundations's list of<b> <i><a href="http://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/special-projects/places-that-matter-plaque-project/">Places That Matter</a></i></b><i> </i>to Vancouverites. While checking out the event details, I realized that 125 local places are now included.<br /><br />As some will know, at heart I feel I'll always be a Vancouver, British Columbia girl. So I thought I'd like to make a list of Vancouver places that mattered to my family and to me as I was growing up.<br /><br />These Vancouver places (in no particular order) sprang to mind - you will sense some personal themes.<br /><a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/queen-elizabeth-park.aspx" target="_blank"><br /></a>Little Mountain -&nbsp; <a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/queen-elizabeth-park.aspx" target="_blank">Queen Elizabeth Park </a>- where our Na took us to 'hike' when my brother and I were young. No fancy facilities then, and still quarry remains to be seen.<br /><br />Robson Street - around Burrard. No high class shops in 'my day', but a great variety of small ones. A certain deli, I remember, but what was it called? (not Freybe's.)&nbsp; For a look back in time, see this film posted at YouTube by BC History- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EfLBbYFzJ8" target="_blank">"Robson Street in 1964 aka Robsonstrasse"</a>. <br /><a href="http://www.vpl.ca/branches/details/carnegie_branch" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://www.vpl.ca/branches/details/carnegie_branch" target="_blank">The Carnegie Library</a> - this building still stands at Main and Hastings Streets, but when&nbsp; I was little it was the BIG library for the city and a museum was upstairs. Today there's still a library there and I think it's the only one that is open year round, holiday or no. <br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_City_Hall" target="_blank"><br /></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_City_Hall" target="_blank">Vancouver City Hall grounds</a> - where I often picnicked with a friend and a sandwich. Seemed a grown up thing to do at the time. <br /><br /><a href="http://vancouver.ca/your-government/mountain-view-cemetery.aspx" target="_blank">Mountain View Cemetery</a> - here&nbsp; a good number of family members rest.&nbsp; My dad used to take me when he visited. I so wish I had had a little notepad and pencil then. His dad worked at the cemetery; as a boy my dad helped him.<br /><br /><a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/jericho-beach.aspx" target="_blank">Jericho Beach</a> - some summer nights and fall nights, my mum would pack up food, my dad would bring the camp stove, and we'd be off to eat our dinner by the sea. Not so much fun for Mum, I'm guessing, but I don't really remember her complaining; we were happy enough with canned pork and beans.&nbsp; Sometimes we went to Second Beach too.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vpl.ca/find/cat/C1008/" target="_blank">Vancouver Public Library, Burrard and Robson</a> - This building opened as Vancouver's main library just in time for a birthday visit in 1957. The building is still there, but no longer is it a public facility. (And no, I'd rather not think about that.)<br /><br />Stanley Park - mainly I remember we frequented the area around Lost Lagoon but my Na loved to walk and walk; sometimes we went to the 'Pitch and Putt'. And we all (except Dad) went to see live musicals at <a href="http://www.tuts.ca/show-history" target="_blank">Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) </a>too.&nbsp; <a href="http://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/stanley-park-history.aspx" target="_blank">Check out the interactive Stanley Park history timeline here</a>.&nbsp; <br /><br />I'd want to include Simon Fraser Elementary School&nbsp; - both my brother and I went there. Sad to say, but the building we knew was demolished quite a while ago. And maybe I'd add Eric Hamber Secondary as we both went there although neither of us was graduated. And perhaps even the Normal School where I was first 'in school' as a guinea pig...<br /><br />And there were a few <a href="http://chinesecanadian.ubc.ca/featured/vancouver-sun-marco-polo-restaurant-canadas-only-oriental-revue/" target="_blank">Vancouver restaurants</a> that could be on our list - Scott's Cafe downtown, the Artistocratic on Granville at Broadway, the <a href="http://chinesecanadian.ubc.ca/featured/vancouver-sun-marco-polo-restaurant-canadas-only-oriental-revue/" target="_blank">Palm Dairy</a>, close to home on Cambie Street, the Marco Polo in Chinatown (with its <i>Chinese smorgasbord</i>) and my childhood favourite, downtown Woodward's mezzanine cafe where Mum and I would have Friday night supper on our shopping nights. I always thought I'd write an experimental novel based on the snatches of conversation I overheard there.<br /><br />Now I have to find out which places my baby brother would want to add to this Rogers - Scott family list. A certain Cambie Street corner gas station will be one, I'm pretty sure.&nbsp; <br /><br />Which <i>Places that Matter</i> belong on your own family's list? M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-55260065310371474782014-11-14T09:26:00.001-08:002014-11-14T09:26:07.246-08:00Movember photo - Alexander Carmichael? 1856--1922 - Islay, Ontario to Newdale, Manitoba, Canada<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GxmFe2SvQKI/VGYknNyVJ5I/AAAAAAAAb7U/RNoWT_dabUg/s1600/14.%2Bno%2Bid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GxmFe2SvQKI/VGYknNyVJ5I/AAAAAAAAb7U/RNoWT_dabUg/s1600/14.%2Bno%2Bid.jpg" height="320" width="195" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Possibly? a phtograph of Alexander Carmichael, born 1856, Fenelon Township, Victoria County, Ontario, Canada.&nbsp; Photographers [Hamilton] Fowler &amp; [Isaac] Oliver, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Private collection.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One of the many moustachioed men in my family tree.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">I'm hoping a closer family member may have a copy of this photo or another of Alexander Carmichael from a similar time period.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If this is Alexander, then he was the ....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Husband of Esther Ann Currin, - Essie - married 1 January 1885 in Islay, Ontario, Canada. With Essie, he was a parent of Donald, Eliza Ann, John, Daisy, Jessie and Margaret. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Son of Margaret Gilchrist and Donald Carmichael, and brother of Janet, Ann, Mary and Margaret Carmichael and Diana Gilchrist.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Alexander Carmichael died in 1922 at Newdale, Manitoba, Canada.&nbsp; </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a family photograph identified as Alexander and Essie Carmichael with son Donald by my grandmother, Amy Estella Scott, n<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">é</span>e Irwin. Photographer E. [Eli] Williamson, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Private collection.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XwDS5PYRtwE/VGY2M7gu02I/AAAAAAAAb7k/kVysD1dKCoA/s1600/25.%2Bessie%2Balex%2Bcarmichael.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XwDS5PYRtwE/VGY2M7gu02I/AAAAAAAAb7k/kVysD1dKCoA/s1600/25.%2Bessie%2Balex%2Bcarmichael.jpg" height="320" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">References</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fenelon, Ontario, Canada marriage registration, 011338, marriage1 January 1885. Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada). Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1801-1928 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data:Ontario, Canada, Select Marriages. Archives of Ontario, Toronto.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Harrison, Manitoba, Canada death registration, 1922-030379, death 23 August 1922. Province of Manitoba, Canada, Vital Statistics Agency.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">More information on this family available from my family files.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For more about Lindsay, Ontario, Canada photographers, see <i>The Ontario Photographers List </i>- Volume 1 (1851-1900) &amp; Volume 2 (1901-1925) by Glen C. Phillips (originally published, Sarnia, Ontario: Iron Gate Publishing Co., 1990; new edition, Milton, Ontario: Global Heritage Press,&nbsp; 2002, 2010.)</span></div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-25821722232165986152014-11-08T21:33:00.000-08:002014-11-08T21:33:18.009-08:00Fraser Valley Family History Fair - more links and handouts.Great day today at the first ever Fraser Valley Family History Fair in Chilliwack, BC!<br /><br />A warm thank you to the organizers and to all the volunteers that made this event happen. It's always grand to meet and talk to people enthusiastic about family history. <br /><br />As promised, I am posting some links and information I referred to today. If you would like an electronic version of either of my handouts, or my Internet Research Log form, please e-mail me at: <a href="mailto:canadagenealogy@shaw.ca" target="_blank">canadagenealogy@shaw.ca</a>&nbsp; And please let me know if I've missed posting a link I promised :-)<br /><br /><b>Facebook and Genealogy&nbsp;</b><br /><br />Katherine R. Willson's "Genealogy on Facebook" list, updated October 18, 2014:&nbsp; <a href="http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list/" target="_blank">http://socialmediagenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list</a><br /><br />FamilySearch Genealogy Research Community pages on Facebook - examples,<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CanadaGenealogy?fref=ts" target="_blank">Canada Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CanadaFirstNationsGenealogy?fref=ts" target="_blank">Canada First Nations Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/285487894989582/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Europe Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/965066490187186/?fref=ts" target="_blank">U. S. Northeast Genealogy Research Community</a> <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/804695219582639/?fref=ts" target="_blank">U. S. South Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1473896099560205/?fref=ts" target="_blank">U. S. Midwest Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/277105002497049/?fref=ts" target="_blank">U. S. West Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/367146666771463/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Asia, Africa &amp; Pacific Genealogy Research Community</a><br /><br />Some of these pages are in transition right now to regional ones. Please search on Facebook with the name of the county you are searching and "Genealogy Research Community". <br /><br /><br />See Genealogy Help on Facebook, FamilySearch wiki: <a href="https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Genealogy_Help_on_Facebook">https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Genealogy_Help_on_Facebook</a>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-49157936421870827882014-10-21T14:59:00.003-07:002014-10-21T14:59:41.175-07:00A Night for All Souls - Vancouver BC - October 25 - November 2, 2014Don't miss the 10th annual All Souls celebrations at Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery.&nbsp; The events begin Saturday, October 25, from 6-10 pm.<br /><br />The Cemetery's Celebration Hall will be open 6 to 9 pm for tea, personal memorial making and evening programming throughout the entire memorial week until Sunday, November 2.<br /><br />&nbsp;For more information, see:<br />&nbsp;<a href="http://vancouver.ca/your-government/tours-events-mountain-view-cemetery.aspx">http://vancouver.ca/your-government/tours-events-mountain-view-cemetery.aspx</a><br /><br />This year I will be reflecting particularly on those of my family who served, and some who died in World War I.&nbsp; A number of Canada's war dead from both World War I and II are buried at Mountain View, and many more are remembered on family headstones.&nbsp;<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/47650/Vancouver%20%28Mountain%20View%29%20Cemetery" target="_blank">Mountain View Cemetery</a> - at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qGTW9GcyCkk/VEbVO_qArBI/AAAAAAAAVlU/aGGFp-45U0w/s1600/2013-11-10%2B15.55.34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qGTW9GcyCkk/VEbVO_qArBI/AAAAAAAAVlU/aGGFp-45U0w/s1600/2013-11-10%2B15.55.34.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Canadian World War I dead, Jones section, Mountain View Cemetery, City of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photograph, M. Diane Rogers, November 2013. </div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-43836639402143218622014-08-27T11:18:00.002-07:002014-08-27T11:18:47.733-07:00Canada and the "War Brides" at Library and Archives Canada - World Wars I and II <a href="http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/Pages/war-brides.aspx" target="_blank">Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has added a new page for 'War Brides'</a>. This is a very good thing, as here LAC points to a good number of record collections with information about war time miltary related marriages, going beyond the most obvious ones. <br /><br /><br />But I, of course, feel I must quibble.<br /><br />'War brides', LAC says, are defined as <i>"foreign civilian women who married Canadian soldiers serving overseas during the First and Second World Wars."&nbsp;</i><br /><br />By? ( the Canadian military?) There is no doubt most of these women were British, so not 'foreign',&nbsp; but British subjects same as most women born in Canada. (And by the way, LAC, during WW I, Irish women were also British.)<br /><br />And not all were civilians either. Possibly the assistance offered to civilian women, and dependants, if applicable, was not the same as extended to military women and not reflected in most of LAC's record collections. However if yours was a military bride, don't let LAC deter you, as for example, one of the record sets listed is 'Arrival of CWAC from overseas. Arrangements on Debarkation, 1943-1945'.&nbsp; CWAC stands for Canadian Women's Army Corps (WWII).<br /><br />And I think there must have been at least a few brides other than overseas ones (and a few grooms). And LAC does make just a brief reference to women leaving Canada with or to join new husbands.<i> "Library and Archives Canada also holds departure records for Canadian women who married servicemen from other Allied nations."&nbsp; </i>I would think that USA/Canada Border records or other United States records may reference 'war marriages' either in the USA or Canada involving Canadians marrying USians too.<br /><br />Not all war marriages may have been treated equally, depending on the status of the bride or groom.&nbsp; LAC lists '​Immigration; admission of fiancées of citizens of Chinese origin; enlargement of quota for India, 1956'.<br /><br />In some cases, likely sad ones, LAC files may provide information on women and families after their arrival in Canada, for instance, in these files 'Assistance to dependents re desertion, bigamy, illegitimacy, 1940-47'. And passenger records will show some brides either leaving Canada later or visiting 'home' later on. <br /><i><br /></i>My own parents' marriage was a 'war marriage'. Both were British subjects and born in Canada. Both were in the Canadian military; they met and married in the United States. LAC does, I know, have records noting their marriage. &nbsp;<i> </i><b>Be sure to look at the entire file for your military person, if possible.</b> This will be easier for Canadian WW I military once the files are all digitized and on-line, but seeing a WW II file may involve a longer process. And, in some cases, when a military person did not marry, but had, or was deemed responsible for, a child, there may well be information in the military files. <br /><i><br /></i>Don't neglect newspapers in your search. You will find articles about marriages and arrivals - even photos - as these marriages were of wide interest. Reading Library and Archives Canada's files may give you dates of marriage or arrivals, etc. to search by, or you may be lucky and find that a relevant newspaper has been indexed or even digitized and on-line.<br /><br />LINKS <br /><br />War Brides, Library and Archives Canada (LAC):&nbsp; h<a href="ttp://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/Pages/war-brides.aspx">ttp://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/Pages/war-brides.aspx</a><br /><br /><i></i><br /><i><br /></i>For more about WW I and WW II 'war brides, I recommend highly these two researcher's websites and publications:<br /><i><br /></i>WW I - <i>Canadian War Brides of the First World War </i>by Annette Fulford: <a href="http://ww1warbrides.blogspot.ca/">http://ww1warbrides.blogspot.ca</a><br /><i><br /></i>WW II - <i>Canadian War Brides </i>by <span class="content">Melynda Jarratt</span>: <a href="http://www.canadianwarbrides.com/">http://www.canadianwarbrides.com</a><i><br /></i>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-10856191416677879422014-08-03T01:11:00.003-07:002014-08-03T01:13:16.829-07:00What is "The Commonwealth" - as in The Commonwealth Games or The Commonwealth Short Story Prize?It's Day 10 of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Canada is in third place overall right now, with 31 gold, 16 silver and 33 bronze medals. Go Canada!<br /><br />With all this on the news, a few people have asked me what <i>The Commonwealth</i> is and I said I'd post some links they could explore.<br /><br />Yes, two were Canadians, but much younger than I am. To me, the idea of the (originally British) Commonwealth was part of my Canadian identity. Is it still relevant? I do believe so as now The Commonwealth connects Canada with many more varied countries than our other better known economic and political relationships.<br /><br />The Commonwealth since 1949 has been a voluntary association of independent countries spanning the globe, now 53 countries with over 2.2 billion citizens.<br /><br />While the 'British Commonwealth' began as countries in the British Empire gained their independence, the Commmonwealth today includes countries unassociated with the British Empire or the United Kingdom, for example, the latest member countries, Rwanda and Mozambique.<br /><br />The most significant Commonwealth statistic today to me is that 60% of Commonwealth people are under 30 years of age. They are the future of the world.<br /><br /><br />The Commonwealth - the official website:<a href="http://thecommonwealth.org/" target="_blank"> http://thecommonwealth.org</a><br /><br />Commonwealth map, Atlas of Canada (jpg/pdf): <a href="http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/international/commonwealth">http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/international/commonwealth</a><br /><br />53 independent countries - map with list <a href="http://thecommonwealth.org/member-countrie">http://thecommonwealth.org/member-countrie</a>s<br /><br />Profile Commonwealth, BBC News: <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16842428">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16842428</a><br /><br />Timeline - The Commonwealth, BBC News: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1554513.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1554513.stm</a><br /><br />Commonwealth Games Canada - Canada hosted the very first Commonwealth Games in 1930. Then the Games were known as the British Empire Games; renamed as the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954 and the British Commonwealth Games in 1970:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.commonwealthgames.ca/">http://www.commonwealthgames.ca/</a><br /><br />Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the guardian organization of Commonwealth nations' military graves: <a href="http://www.cwgc.org/">http://www.cwgc.org/</a><br /><br />WW II, British Commonwealth Air Training Plan: <a href="http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/british-commonwealth-air-training-plan">http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/british-commonwealth-air-training-plan</a><br /><br />WW II, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada: <a href="http://www.airmuseum.ca/">http://www.airmuseum.ca/</a><br /><br />Bomber Command Museum of Canada, Trenton, Alberta, particularly for those interested in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Alberta, WW II: <a href="http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/index.html </a><br /><br />Commonwealth Foundation: <a href="http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/projects">http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/projects</a><br /><br />Royal Commonwealth Society - Canada <a href="http://www.rcs.ca/index.php">http://www.rcs.ca/index.php</a><br /><br />Commonwealth Oral History Project - 1965, Institute of Commonwealth Studies: <a href="http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/research/cw-oral-history-project">http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/research/cw-oral-history-project</a><br /><br />Just for fun - "Queen's quirky Commonwealth gifts go on display", The Telegraph, 19 March 2014:<br /><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/10709030/Queens-quirky-Commonwealth-gifts-go-on-display.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/queen-elizabeth-II/10709030/Queens-quirky-Commonwealth-gifts-go-on-display.html</a><br /><br />11 minutes of highlights from the 5th British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1954, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Filmmaker, Jack Olsen. NFB film: <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/film/british_empire_commonwealth_games/">http://www.nfb.ca/film/british_empire_commonwealth_games/</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dphwDXm4aiY/U93tKCL9RyI/AAAAAAAAUrU/7OvdwusPuFw/s1600/Save0004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dphwDXm4aiY/U93tKCL9RyI/AAAAAAAAUrU/7OvdwusPuFw/s1600/Save0004.jpg" height="311" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Souvenir sweet dish, 1954 Vancouver, BC, British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Private collection.</div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-62232252002309909032014-08-03T00:27:00.001-07:002014-08-03T01:22:06.589-07:00Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - another survey!It's been a while since I've had time to participate in Randy Seaver's <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/08/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-your.html" target="_blank">Saturday Night Genealogy Fun over at GeneaMusings</a>, and this time it's a survey. No secret either that I don't think much of most on-line surveys, but we all like to hear what others are doing so here goes.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>a) &nbsp;Which genealogy software programs for your computer do you use (e.g., Family Tree Maker, Reunion, GRAMPS, etc.)?</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Legacy -desktop and Families for mobile<br />- also Heredis - desktop only for now, and once in a long while I still print a chart from Family Tree Maker.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>b) &nbsp;Which online family trees have information submitted by you - in either a separate online tree (e.g., Ancestry Member Tree) or a universal (collaborative) online tree (e.g., WikiTree)?</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Oh, dear, how disorganized (or indecisive) this all sounds. Someday I expect I will hit the button and upload a whole tree. (I have 2 main databases - for my parents' families and for my husband's families. Intend to merge them at some point, but seemed easier to keep them separate from the beginning.<br /><br />Ancestry - a female DNA tree to go with my mitochondrial results transferred there from GeneTree (SMGF).<br /><br />Ancestry - a play tree I've been building using my mobile.<br /><br />TribalPages - 2 basic tree sites - up for years now and updated periodically as 'cousin bait'. <br />- AXNER, BROSTRÖM, ERIKSSEN, JOHANSON, LÖFHOLM, RYDBERG &amp; ZETTERBERG, Sweden to Canada: <a href="http://swedesinbc.tribalpages.com/">http://swedesinbc.tribalpages.com/</a> <br />- SCOTT family: Muiravonside, Dalmeny, Tushielaw, Galashiels, Grangemouth, in Scotland: <a href="http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/mdianerogers">http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/mdianerogers</a> <br /><br />MyHeritage and Geni - little bitty trees<br /><br /><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>c) &nbsp;For which subscription genealogy record providers (e.g., Ancestry) do you have a subscription?</b></span></span><br /><br />At the moment -<br /><br />FindMyPast.com<br />MyHeritage.com<br />Newspapers.com<br />Oops!<br />Forgot Mocavo.com&nbsp; Sorry. (I just found something very good there too.)<br /><br />At my genealogical society library I regularly use Ancestry Library Edition, Genealogical Research Library, and new there - BDA Online — Biographical Database of Australia.<br />(Usually I do have a personal subscription to Ancestry but have let it go for a bit.) <br /><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>d) &nbsp;Which FREE genealogy record providers (e.g., FamilySearch) do you use regularly?</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Countless, I think. Main and some favourites - since I've been working on BC and Manitoba families lately<br /><br />FamilySearch.org<br />British Columbia Archives<br />The British Colonist newspaper<br />Manitobia.ca<br />Manitoba Vital Statistics database<br />Commonwealth War Graves Commission<br />Canada - Virtual War Memorial<br />The Gazettes - Canada, UK <br /><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>e) &nbsp;How much time do you spend each week doing actual genealogy research online? &nbsp;[Note: &nbsp;not reading, or social networking, but actual searching in a record provider]. &nbsp;Estimate an average number of hours per week.</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Guessing but maybe I'll keep track again for a while.<br />-2 hours average a day - searching and copying etc. Lately this involves a lot of work in digital newspapers for one of my projects.<br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>f) &nbsp;How much time do you spend each week doing actual genealogy research in a repository (e.g., library, archive, courthouse, etc.)? &nbsp;Estimate an average number of hours per month over, say, a one year period.</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span> Average a year - a day a week. Again maybe I'll try to keep track. I take a couple of research trips a year and I am at one or two local libraries every week for a few hours. I also volunteer at my society library but I'm not counting that time, just my estimate of my own time spent researching family there. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>&nbsp;</b></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>g) &nbsp;How much time do you spend each week adding information to your genealogy software program (either on your computer or online)? &nbsp;Estimate an average number of hours per week over, say, a one month period.</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Not nearly enough! A guilt making question, for sure. This year I am way, way behind entering new data. However, I have been keeping up with my back project. I started all this before media could be attached to data entered in programmes, so I've been working on catching up there. (And I've been posting some of this info on-line. Catching up there too.) <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b>h) &nbsp;How much time do you spend each month at a genealogical society meeting, program or event (not a seminar or conference)? &nbsp;Estimate an average number of hours per month over, say, a one year period.</b></span></span></span><br /><br />Monthly meeting - 4 hours; Scandinavian group meeting - 2 hours 10 months a year; Vancouver group meeting - 2 hours; Board meeting - 3 hours; one Committee meeting or other - 3 hours; events - at least one a month - time there ranges from 2 hours to seven or so. (I also volunteer for events, etc. so not including prep time.)<br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><b></b></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.176000595092773px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>i) &nbsp;How much time do you spend each month on genealogy education (e.g., reading books and periodicals, attending seminars, conferences, workshops, webinars, etc.)? &nbsp;</b></span></span></span><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">&nbsp;Estimate an average number of hours per month over, say, a one year period.</b></span><br /><br />I'm reading as often as possible - likely an hour a day for 'genealogical' journals, etc. (Also reading history articles and books.) Attend at least one webinar a month; attend all local genealogical events; usually 2-3 conferences a year and at least one out of town seminar.&nbsp; During this last year, I attended a couple of conferences part-time virtually too. <br /><br />&nbsp;<span style="color: blue;"><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">j) &nbsp;How much time do you spend each week reading, writing and commenting on genealogy blogs, websites, and social media? &nbsp;</b><b style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px;">&nbsp;Estimate an average number of hours per week over, say, a one month period.</b></span><br /><br />Don't really want to know! But, I am again commenting more than writing on my own blogs. So I'm going to guess 1 1/2 hour a day.&nbsp;&nbsp; Much of my on-line reading and 'social networking' takes place on the run as I use public transit every day and take advantage of access on my phone.M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-77718342225128482972014-07-29T07:25:00.000-07:002014-07-29T07:25:10.411-07:00Only the Best Links for Canadian #Genealogy and Family History - right here at CanadaGenealogy. It's that time again - Family Tree Magazine has released its list of&nbsp; <a href="http://familytreemagazine.com/article/101-Best-Websites-2014" target="_blank">"101 Best Genealogy Sites for 2014"</a>.&nbsp; Of course, there are a lot of bones to pick there! But old and experienced as I am (and polite, I'm Canadian after all) I don't usually worry much about these lists. I do read the magazine month to month, along with a number of other publications.<br /><br /><br />Right here at CanadaGenealogy, I have my list of <a href="http://www.canadagenealogy.blogspot.ca/p/blog-page_20.html" target="_blank"><b>Essential Canadian #Genealogy Sites and Books</b></a>.&nbsp; These are for research into <i>national </i>topics, and are updated often. Follow all the links I offer and you will see the best for each province and territory too and for some very specialized topics. <br /><br />Not to say I don't look at these broad lists. I am on the hunt for 'new to me' and really new #genealogy websites every day. As a #genealogy teacher, I need to be; I believe all researchers should do this regularly. Just don't forget that usually the 'on the ground' experienced researchers are the first ones you should 'follow'. <br /><br />However, the list of "Best Canadian Genealogy Websites" did seem downright odd. Was this an afterthought? Suddenly someone remembered the frozen north? (I'm kidding about that frozen part. It's very hot here right now where I am.)&nbsp;<br /><br />Listed for Canada were only 4 websites (in this order): Canadiana, Library and Archives Canada, Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, and Programme de Recherche en Démographie Historique (for Quebec, usually known familiarly as PRDH).&nbsp; Good enough websites on their own, but all costing $. And together these hardly even touch on Canada's wide expanse of #genealogy websites and records.<br /><br />Mind you, the list for Continental Europe was only 8 links long. I could rattle off a long list of favourites there too. E-mail me! Or check the <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/?page_id=116" target="_blank">British Columbia Genealogical Society's worldwide research links</a>. I curate many of those. (Suggestions welcomed.) <br /><br />Why did they bother with that Canadian list at all, I wonder. Maybe stirring up a few Canadians on Facebook is good for business? Now that magazine has another link!<br /><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-3684600909561200852014-07-18T07:31:00.000-07:002014-07-18T07:31:01.384-07:00Diane's Other Likes - June/July 2014Here are some<i> other </i>things I've been reading about lately.<br /><br />I see the Internet Archive blog has noted the death of Zoia Markovna (née Polisar) Horn, librarian activist, 12 July 2014. <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT227_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT228_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://blog.archive.org/2014/07/15/zoia-horn-obit/" target="_blank">https://blog.archive.org/2014/07/15/zoia-horn-obit/</a></span></span> &nbsp;Her legacy will live on in the California Library Association's <a href="http://www.cla-net.org/?118" target="_blank">Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award</a>. <br /><br />Here are a few treat recipes from the olden days in "Cookie Anyone" from historical novelist, Lynn Coleman's 19th Century Historical Tidbits: <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT230_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT231_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://historicaltidbits.blogspot.ca/2014/07/cookie-anyone.html" target="_blank">http://historicaltidbits.blogspot.ca/2014/07/cookie-anyone.html</a></span></span> <br /><br /><br />Many of Canada's volunteers have found themselves working to comply with CASL, Canada's new legislation regarding commercial e-mail messages. (I won't say it's anti-spam because it isn't.)<br />Michael Geist has a pair of very reasonable articles on this. Yes, Michael, I can't disagree with most of what you say – but while this legislation is hitting some cute little homegrown mice with sledgehammers, the most annoying spam fills up our in boxes as usual. <br />MichaelGeist.ca Part 1 - 9 July 2014 &nbsp;<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT232_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT234_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/07/defence-canadas-anti-spam-law-part-one-spam-still-problem-new-law-will-help" target="_blank">http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/07/defence-canadas-anti-spam-law-part-one-spam-still-problem-new-law-will-help</a></span></span> ; Part 2 – 10 July 2014 <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT233_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT235_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/07/defence-canadas-anti-spam-law-part-two-legislation-really-consumer-protection-privacy-law-disguise/" target="_blank">http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/07/defence-canadas-anti-spam-law-part-two-legislation-really-consumer-protection-privacy-law-disguise/</a></span></span> <br /><br />A bit of historical BC fun from The Tyee, a selection from Adrian Raeside's 30 years of political cartoons. There's been lots of sad, annoying and downright maddening news lately, but one thing about British Columbians, we've been making fun of ourselves at least since <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/de_cosmos_amor_12E.html" target="_blank">Amor de Cosmos</a> was our leader (1872). The cartoons are in <i>The Best of Adrian Raeside: A Treasury of BC Cartoons</i> (Harbour Publishing, 2014). <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT236_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT237_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://thetyee.ca/Culture/2014/07/12/Thirty-Years-Adrian-Raeside/" target="_blank">http://thetyee.ca/Culture/2014/07/12/Thirty-Years-Adrian-Raeside/</a></span></span><br /><br /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT236_com_zimbra_url"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT237_com_zimbra_url">And finally, for all those who say to me, 'don't worry, Diane, someday I'll write down these family stories of mine', </span></span>Valerie Hughes's article, “I Thought I'd Have More Time!” may convince you that some things just can't wait: <br /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT229_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://genealogywithvalerie.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/i-thought-i-d-have-more-time/" target="_blank">http://genealogywithvalerie.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/i-thought-i-d-have-more-time/</a></span>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-35236115349318581972014-06-28T10:54:00.001-07:002014-06-28T10:54:36.969-07:00Today's the day! Where are all the Canadians in #genealogy?Today I'm going to say here something I've been saying for a long time....<br /><br />Why is Canadian genealogy so often shown as <i>'white'</i> and <i>European</i>?&nbsp; (And too often, mainly <i>British</i>.)<br /><br />Of course, in the 'big picture', it isn't (and never was). As a British Columbian genealogist, I see plenty of evidence of people researching their family history all around the world, but some newbies might not stay around long enough to learn that on the ground anyone is welcome to join us in this heartfelt, obsessive pursuit. <br /><br />There's one company - the one with the best known #genealogy name in Canada, I'd wager - which uses an English woman in ads.&nbsp; And, not an English born, Canada living woman like my one gran who had the edges of her (never plummy) accent rubbed off - but a woman who lives and works in England for that company. <br /><br />Now for Canada Day, there's a nice enough video again from that company apparently with 'real' Canadians (maybe Ontarians?)&nbsp; - but all <i>look white</i> (and are only talking about <i>male</i> relatives).<br /><br />&nbsp;- <a href="http://www.ancestry.ca/cs/ca/canada2014?o_iid=61020&amp;o_lid=61020&amp;o_sch=Web+Property" target="_blank">"There’s nothing ordinary about being Canadian."</a><br /><br />Darn right! Enough of being polite.<br /><br />Give us something better. Something inclusive! And be quick about it! M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-12094021686811697782014-05-23T11:12:00.002-07:002014-05-23T12:20:00.508-07:00Diane's Other Likes - May 2014 (with maybe just a litte #genealogy)I read a good number of other blog articles each day, mostly on my phone on the train. Many don't fit into my usual #genealogy mode, so I've decided to give a short heads-up once every few weeks to other news and events I'm interested in. I'll be sharing a list of upcoming walking tours and the like soon too.<br /><br />So for <b>May 2014</b><br /><br />First and foremost, the<b> Vancouver Postcard Club's annual Paper and Collectables Show and Sale </b>is this Sunday, May 25 at the Hastings Community Centre in Vancouver. See more info on the Club's website:&nbsp;<a href="http://vancouverpostcardclub.ca/?p=747">http://vancouverpostcardclub.ca/?p=747</a><br /><br />And one more for this weekend - <b>The Maple Ridge Museum will be at the Bandstand in Memorial Peace Park tomorrow </b>for the year's first outing of "History Goes to Market! &nbsp;Celebrating the museum's 40th anniversary along with the Haney Farmer's Market's 10th anniversary. Rain or shine! 9 am to 2 pm:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.haneyfarmersmarket.org/">http://www.haneyfarmersmarket.org/</a><br /><div><br /></div><br />And these -<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.acakebakesinbrooklyn.com/" target="_blank"><i>A Cake Bakes in Brooklyn</i></a>.</b> Some will be astonished that I follow a 'baking' blog, but really, there's lots of history there. And I always learn something. This article is about Matrimony Cake, almost what we call "Matrimonial Bars' but it does look different. Love the instruction to<i> "Cook till mushy". </i>So romantic, eh!&nbsp;<a href="http://www.acakebakesinbrooklyn.com/2014/05/say-i-do-to-matrimony-cake.html" target="_blank">&nbsp;http://www.acakebakesinbrooklyn.com/2014/05/say-i-do-to-matrimony-cake.html</a><br /><br /><a href="http://pricetags.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b><i>Price Tags</i></b></a>, Gordon Price's blog - thought provoking articles, mainly to do with Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada where I live. Lots of views on local transit and transportation, for instance - makes me excitable! but here's a good news, feel good, making a difference example about a new community garden area in Vancouver.<br />Transformation: A Garden in Mount Pleasant written by Scot Bathgate:&nbsp;<a href="http://pricetags.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/transformation-a-garden-in-mount-pleasant">http://pricetags.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/transformation-a-garden-in-mount-pleasant</a><br /><br /><b>Roedde House</b>. Visit this charming home in downtown Vancouver for Tea and a Tour and/or attend one of the Sunday concerts or a Jazz evening: <a href="http://www.roeddehouse.org/en/activities/cultural-activities/cultural-activities-xba" target="_blank">http://www.roeddehouse.org/en/activities/cultural-activities/cultural-activities-xba</a><br /><br /><b>Vancouver Heritage Foundation's Heritage Home Tour</b> is on&nbsp;June 1, 2014, Visit 11 remarkable homes. Get your tickets now:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/">http://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/</a><br /><br />And you knew I'd sneak in some genealogy, right?<br /><br />Nancy H Vest at <i><b><a href="http://nancyhvest.com/hiding-the-past-a-review/" target="_blank">Keeping Grandma Alive…and all the others, too </a></b></i> has reviewed a new mystery,&nbsp;<i>Hiding the Past: A Genealogical Crime Mystery</i> by Nathan Dylan Goodwin. She liked it, and I'm sure I will too. It's almost on my reader now. (Apparently I needed to update Kindle. Another to-do for today. DONE!)<br /><br /><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-76141440513659731992014-05-23T09:08:00.001-07:002014-05-23T09:08:55.702-07:00Memorial Day USA - Kenneth Scott Bates - 52 AncestorsAs this is US Memorial Day weekend, it's certainly a good time to research your USA military members and families for free. I'm thinking particularly of one of my US veteran cousins today, Kenneth Scott Bates (1919-1998), son of&nbsp;Edward Kimball Bates and&nbsp;Harriott(e) Alice Louise Scott. Kenneth was very interested in his family history and shared information and documents when he visited us in Vancouver, BC.<br /><br />There are several offers for free access to selected military records.<br /><br />To May 26 Ancestry: <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/memorialday2014">http://www.ancestry.com/cs/us/memorialday2014</a><br /><br />And all May - Fold3: <a href="http://go.fold3.com/wwii/">http://go.fold3.com/wwii/</a> The newest records at Fold3 are for US Medal of Honor recipients. For more about this collection, see this Fold3 blog article: <a href="http://blog.fold3.com/medal-of-honor-recipients">http://blog.fold3.com/medal-of-honor-recipients</a><br /><br />To May 26 My Heritage:&nbsp;<a href="http://pages.myheritage.com/memorialday">http://pages.myheritage.com/memorialday</a><br /><br />My Heritage is my current favourite of the BIG commercial websites. I made a somewhat surprising discovery there last night, in fact. So far, My Heritage seems to have a wide range of types and dates of US military records, millions they say, from the War Between the States through to World War II - &nbsp;too long a list to post. <br /><br />Don't forget that<a href="http://www.familysearch.org/" target="_blank"> FamilySearch</a> also has US military records. &nbsp;I often find that it's helpful to go back and forth. If I can't find someone in one website's indexes, I may find it in another and the information included may be a bit different &nbsp;- or there may be associated articles to explain certain aspects of the records, as there are at FamilySearch.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WtJeoOjSJSY/SwDjndOme3I/AAAAAAAAA_g/B-uNqs8dcx0/s1600/Vermont+c+1920+BATES+SCOTT+IRWIN.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WtJeoOjSJSY/SwDjndOme3I/AAAAAAAAA_g/B-uNqs8dcx0/s1600/Vermont+c+1920+BATES+SCOTT+IRWIN.JPG" height="185" width="320" /></a></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">BATES, SCOTT family get together, in Montpelier, Vermont, at the Bates home, c. 1920. Kenneth Bates is the young one in the back row here.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Shown are -&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 13px;">Front: Janet Muriel Scott, my mum, from Newdale, Manitoba, Canada; Edward Wallace Bates, my cousin.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Second row: Jeannette Bates, my cousin; May Janet (Wood) Scott from Nottawa, Ontario, Canada, born in Bean Hill, Connecticut, USA, my great grandmother; Amy Estella (Irwin) Scott from Newdale, my grandmother; Annie Pollock Scott, my great aunt, also from Nottawa.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Back: Hariott(e) Alice Louise, Hattie, (Scott) Bates, my great aunt, born in Nottawa, Ontario, Canada; and Edward Kimball Bates, Hattie's husband, with their younger son, Kenneth Scott Bates.</span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #545e5d; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, FreeMono, monospace; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.790000915527344px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Postcard,&nbsp;<em>Made in Canada</em>, black &amp; white, unmailed. I believe the photographer was my grandfather, James Walter Scott from Newdale, born in Nottawa. Individuals were identified by my grandmother, Amy Estella Scott, in the 1960s.</span></div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-56940599313884978172014-04-06T10:10:00.002-07:002014-04-06T10:11:46.074-07:00Writing My Own HistoryI'm often wondering when I could 'make' time to write up some of my own personal history - not that it's been that exciting so far but there are certainly some things I'd like to make clear to my descendants and the odd thing or two I think I might be the only one to know about now - or, at least, the only one who can remember.<br /><br />Reminiscing about my university days yesterday I was realizing I could likely start a good chunk of my personal history beginning..<i>.I remember when.</i><br /><br />So just 'for fun' here are a few things here - (in no particular order at all).<br /><br /><b>I REMEMBER</b><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Russell_Taylor_%28politician%29" target="_blank">Following John (Diefenbaker's</a><u>)</u>&nbsp;footsteps on a Vancouver sidewalk (perhaps to my mother's embarrassment. She was then pretty much a capital L Liberal, federally speaking, meaning for the national Liberal Party, and not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker" target="_blank">Diefenbaker's</a> Progressive Conservative Party).<br /><br />When Vancouver area pedestrians crossed the street first, and vehicles had to wait<br /><br />My first British Columbia history project<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrills" target="_blank">Thrills Gum!&nbsp;</a><br /><br />And later joining in the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_boycott" target="_blank">Nestle boycott</a><br /><br />Nickel candy (I don't think I'm really old enough to remember penny candy.)<br /><br />Vancouver fogs (Now known as pollution.)<br /><br />When boys were boys, and girls (some anyway) were cross about it<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_%28telephony%29" target="_blank">'Party line'</a> telephone service<br /><br />When I was planning on having 6 kids<br /><br />My son telling someone,'Mum reads even the small print'.<br /><br />Thinking I might have been adopted<br /><br />Gidget films<br /><br />My first computer<br /><br />When I had (and occasionally even signed) a nickname<br /><br />Baking my first chocolate cake (it 'bounced'.)<br /><br />Wearing a hat (and gloves) to church<br /><br />My Grandma and Grandpa Rogers (I do wish I remembered them so much better though.)<br /><br />Strawberry tarts at <a href="http://departmentstoremuseum.blogspot.ca/2010/11/woodwards-stores-ltd-vancouver-bc.html" target="_blank">Woodward's store</a> in downtown Vancouver<br /><br />When my very favourite thing was reading (That's NEVER changed!)<br /><br />Wringer washers<br /><br />My 21st birthday present from my father (a bottle of Kahlua)<br /><br />Getting a new outfit for Easter<br /><br />Separate basement recreation areas for girls and for boys in school.<br /><br />Singing songs from <i>The Merry Widow</i> while dancing out of Vancouver's Stanley Park after a <a href="http://www.tuts.ca/show-history" target="_blank">Theatre Under The Stars</a> show (1956)<br /><br />Elevator operators<br /><br />When my favourite colour was blue. (Before that, green; <b>never</b> pink.)<br /><br />My dad answering the private business line as <i>'City Morgue'. </i>Grandma Scott (my Na) didn't appreciate that!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-37885373741589296152014-02-16T23:50:00.000-08:002014-02-16T23:50:29.531-08:00Walter Scott - 52 Ancestors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gD-sLqO_heI/UwG6OyOiVFI/AAAAAAAASOs/rCKzcJyIZhs/s1600/wallter.scott.600dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gD-sLqO_heI/UwG6OyOiVFI/AAAAAAAASOs/rCKzcJyIZhs/s1600/wallter.scott.600dpi.jpg" height="320" width="202" />.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is a photograph of my great grandfather, Walter Scott (1827 Scotland-1892 Ontario, Canada), as identified by my grandmother, Amy Estella Scott. Private collection.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Since Walter Scott was my mother's paternal grandfather, but died before she was born, she was very interested in him and his family in Scotland. Mum knew some information but had a number of questions, about what happened to his brother John's son, for example, which I worked on early in my family history research. Many of these questions resulted in some interesting discussions and some great genealogy trips!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The interesting part (for me) was that Walter Scott had been granted a divorce from his first wife in 1877 in Canada, something my mother only learned accidentally as a young adult and never told me till I started researching the family when, as she said, <i>"You'll find out anyway." </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I have posted a brief summary and some other photographs of our Scott family on a Tribal Pages site,<span class="famtreetitle"> SCOTT family: Muiravonside, Dalmeny, Tushielaw, Galashiels, Grangemouth, in Scotland</span>: <a href="http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/mdianerogers" target="_blank">http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/mdianerogers </a></div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-21875206347759362912014-02-11T00:45:00.000-08:002014-02-11T00:45:07.592-08:00Rootstech - Day 4<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8derNpC3m3c/UvncterQUuI/AAAAAAAAQwI/Rqei3XE1Ank/s1600/IMAG1344.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8derNpC3m3c/UvncterQUuI/AAAAAAAAQwI/Rqei3XE1Ank/s1600/IMAG1344.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a>Saturday, sponsored by Ancestry, felt different right from the start. Far more people were about, several thousand more in fact, and many of these were very young and carrying their new colourful day packs as on the left here. This gave the day an even happier, more energetic buzz, I thought.<br /><br /><br />Ancestry's introductory remarks at the Opening Session were few, and to me too close to previous DNA testing promises from Ancestry - spelling F-R-U-S-T-R-A-T-I-O-N for many. The speakers though were Todd Hansen of the <a href="http://www.byutv.org/show/a5d5a631-d2b5-48e6-a0e9-069d50a5524b/the-story-trek" target="_blank">Story Trek TV programme</a> and Stephanie Nielsen of <a href="http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">NieNie Dialogues.</a> Their talks were both quite emotional presentations meant to point out that <i>"everyone has a story"</i>, and that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when necessary. <br /><br />The first session I attended was Tim Janzen's on Using Third Party Tools to Help You Get More from Your DNA Test Results. Tim shared many, many examples and a number of genetic genealogy's other notables were in the room and contributed as well. A great session, packed with solid information. I did attend as many DNA sessions as I could fit in and this was certainly the most important one for me.<br /><br />And as pointed out at the session, if you are interested in DNA testing for genealogy, think about attending the first <a href="http://i4gg.org/" target="_blank">Institute for Genetic Genealogy Conference</a> this August in Washington, DC, USA.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36-C7amLaVk/UvndjZojadI/AAAAAAAAQwQ/mfrOksDMpaA/s1600/IMAG1342.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36-C7amLaVk/UvndjZojadI/AAAAAAAAQwQ/mfrOksDMpaA/s1600/IMAG1342.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Part of Ancestry's display area at RootsTech 2014.</div><br />After that came another tasty lunch, this time sponsored by the New England History Genealogical Society. My genealogical society subscribes to the NEHGS website, AmericanAncestors.org - such a useful research website. The talk was a well organized presentation on what's new with NEHGS on the web which I was very glad to listen to. I sent info home about the new NEHGS blog, <a href="http://vita-brevis.org/">Vita-Brevis.org</a>, during the lunch. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qOch3an_Uq0/UvneR_FK0rI/AAAAAAAAQwY/fqRl8bPt-e4/s1600/IMAG1349.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qOch3an_Uq0/UvneR_FK0rI/AAAAAAAAQwY/fqRl8bPt-e4/s1600/IMAG1349.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The New England Historic Genealogical Society's display area, RootsTech 2014.</div><br />Next up was a talk on Using Mocavo by Michael Leclerc. This session was marked as for all levels, but as he said, his was a 1,000 foot view of Mocavo, more for beginners, but since I often use and recommend it, I stayed hoping to learn some tips and hear what's new.&nbsp; I did get some tips, but Michael didn't let much slip about what might be coming. One strong message though was Mocavo's committment to add 1,000 databases a working day (each could be what I'd call one record, like a book, or a set) to total 5,000 a week.<br /><br />A Developer's Challenge session had been announced at the morning's Opening Session. Although several of us were there on time waiting, nothing ever happened and I never heard or saw an explanation. Very, very disappointing. The attention given to the Developer's Challenge was much better than last year, but! <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7eIvOYGJEC4/Uvnez4uxlPI/AAAAAAAAQwg/jUXgJdzcyVs/s1600/IMAG1351.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7eIvOYGJEC4/Uvnez4uxlPI/AAAAAAAAQwg/jUXgJdzcyVs/s1600/IMAG1351.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a>Consequently I did spend a bit more time in the Expo Hall (bought another book or two!) and watched a few presentations in the Demo Theatre. The Olympics were on many people's minds even there. And Canada was doing very well! Comfy seating in the Demo area (seen on the left) and free popcorn too,&nbsp; all thanks to <a href="http://www.backblaze.com/" target="_blank">BackBlaze</a>, the backup company.<br /><br /><br />The last presentation I attended was by Brandi Burns, on Using Prezi to Visualize and Reinvent Your Family Tree. I've played with Prezi a few times and was interested to see how someone else would use it. Brandi had a number of good ideas and showed a variety of options. Although Prezi wouldn't be good for all presentations, I can now envision using it for a talk I had in mind on our Swedish families. This session would be good as a lab as Brandi had originally intended.<br /><br />Brandi's fun example, <a href="http://prezi.com/x87fetd2hzae/xoxo-boise/" target="_blank">XOXO Boise, </a>included a mention of bronc rider Mary Ellen 'Bonnie' (n<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">é</span>e Treadwell) McCarroll. I hadn't realized her first professional event was in Vancouver, BC, Canada where I live and I will have to have a look at the old Vancouver area newspapers to see what was said about her. I have a friend who is big on cowgirls. Perhaps she's done that research already?<br /><br /><br />But no doubt about it, Saturday's RootsTech highlight was the after party held by<a href="http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/mondays-with-myrt.html" target="_blank"> DearMYRTLE </a>and Mr. Myrt and the family. A great international gathering of geneabloggers! Are you on Facebook? There are photos there to prove it. I was especially happy to meet Miriam Robbins, of <a href="http://ancestories1.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">AncesStories</a>, who is from Spokane, Washington and another Northwest America blogger. She has a <a href="http://ancestories1.blogspot.ca/2014/02/rootstech-day-three.html" target="_blank">good photo of most of us</a> on her blog.<br /><br />The timing isn't the best for me, but I plan to see them all again in 2015, February 11-14, we hope along with our cruising blogger 'cousins' like Thomas MacEntee and Jill Ball.<br /><br />Over the next few days I'll be sharing about some of the services and products I found most interesting at RootsTech 2014 and I'll be writing a summary of my overall impressions of the conference itself too. M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-38238895203470556712014-02-08T06:02:00.001-08:002014-02-08T06:02:10.522-08:00Rootstech 2014 - Day 3<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XQCyoluj0Wo/UvYxcq-W6jI/AAAAAAAAQv4/4TsrLmDwlps/s1600/IMAG1321.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XQCyoluj0Wo/UvYxcq-W6jI/AAAAAAAAQv4/4TsrLmDwlps/s1600/IMAG1321.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;The Rootstech fountain - now an accustomed spot for people to meet. Photographs in this post, M. Diane Rogers</div><br />Yesterday was a great day - from the very first moments - as Judy Russell (<a href="http://www.legalgenealogist.com/" target="_blank">The Legal Genealogist</a>) and Spencer Wells (<a href="http://www.genealogicalstudies.com/" target="_blank">The Genographic Project</a>) were Thursday's opening speakers. Can't top these two!<br /><br />Judy's energetic talk made her point that a family's oral history can be lost (or confused!) in just 3 generations unless we analyze it, document it and preserve it, (No, I didn't know the answer for her first question - what was your mum's first childhood illness - not even for myself (!) but I do remember Mum's story of the time her appendix burst and of the time I 'ate' her glass horsies. Those aren't written down, yet. but they will be very soon, Judy. I'm not sure if I could document my childhood 'accident' but Mum's I likely could as she was apparently in the hospital for a while.)<br /><br />And Spencer Wells entertainly introduced his own family history and his reasons for becoming interested in population studies, explained the concepts, then took us on a whirlwind tour back to our very beginnings. And he saluted the new citizen scientists who are participating and funding in these projects, and have enhanced the research with their own questions and analysis. <br /><br />I've signed up for a sponsored lunch each day. Wednesday's&nbsp; was with <a href="http://www.findmypast.com/" target="_blank">Find My Past</a>. I can say I liked it better than last year, but I'll likely write more later. I feel their 'message' is confusing to people. Great product(s), but then I've 'known' them as a consumer for years, and I don't need convincing. (Although I do have FMP questions I'd like answered!)&nbsp; But FMP still seems to be an unknown quantity here in the US.&nbsp; They have a lot to offer, and have had great success in English projects, with member groups of the <a href="http://www.ffhs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Federation of Family History Societies</a>, for instance, not to mention that their technical expertise has to be above the norm. Why not capitalize on that? (Maybe if they had relaunched in Canada first they'd be better known by now. Oh, wait, they'd have to learn French first. Maybe that's a problem. )<br /><br />Thursday my lunch was with <a href="http://www.myheritage.com/" target="_blank">My Heritage</a>. I do think this is the company to keep your eye on if you are looking for future trends, and I was not disappointed with the lunch talk. (Although it was hard to hear everything, and I don't think the speaker ever gave us his name?) More about this talk later. <br /><br />The rest of the day went very quickly, a session on Google Analytics (webmistresses love Google!) and 2 labs, one with <a href="http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/" target="_blank">DearMyrt</a> on Google Hangouts on Air (Google again!) and one with <a href="http://lisalouisecooke.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Cooke</a> of Genealogy Gems on Flipboard. I do plan to use this for the British Columbia Genealogical Society. Later I attended 2 unconferences for on-line Facebook groups I belong to. So nice to really meet the people behind the photos.<br /><br />Of course, I bought a few more books and the new version of <a href="http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/" target="_blank">Legacy</a> which is my own main genealogy software now.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Opfi8HRw6cM/UvYw1cgk6lI/AAAAAAAAQvo/Ejjxg6isQXA/s1600/IMAG1323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Opfi8HRw6cM/UvYw1cgk6lI/AAAAAAAAQvo/Ejjxg6isQXA/s1600/IMAG1323.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Leland Meitzler of Family Roots Publishing, in his booth. Note the poster for his famous annual<a href="http://www.genealogyblog.com/" target="_blank"> Salt Lake City Christmas Tour. </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>And I had a little chat with Canadian Louise St. Denis, founder of the <a href="http://www.genealogicalstudies.com/" target="_blank">National Institute for Genealogical Studies</a>.&nbsp; I'm thinking of taking an Australian research course or two, and she let me know fees with soon rise, so if you've been putting off taking a course, decide now!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N4bqMUyFU00/UvYxMj6yEzI/AAAAAAAAQvw/MV3sLI5mxUU/s1600/IMAG1325.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N4bqMUyFU00/UvYxMj6yEzI/AAAAAAAAQvw/MV3sLI5mxUU/s1600/IMAG1325.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;Louise St. Denis, at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies booth. </div><br />Looking forward to the last day, but sad too that this will all end on Saturday. Of course, many times, relationships and learning continue on-line later. We are very lucky in this day and age in that regard. Remember the meetings? One of those groups sprung up after a Rootstech conference and has been going strong ever since. And the other group grew out of the first one. (Sounds like family history, doesn't it?) <br /><br /><br />(And yes, I am numbering my days here counting from the Innovator's Summit!)<br /><br /><br /><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-57011169623219641002014-02-07T05:54:00.004-08:002014-02-07T05:58:16.279-08:00Rootstech 2014 - Day 2Definitely a different feeling at Rootstech 2014 as many more people joined in. The halls were often packed! Everyone was smiling though.<br /><br />The geneabloggers had a quick tour of the Expo Hall before the official opening. Here's a photo of Paul Nauta of FamilySearch showing Geneabloggers part of FamilySearch's own highly interactive display where visitors can record a personal story or phone home and record someone else's family story.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hmnuKmhsBiE/UvTgx3rsqjI/AAAAAAAAQvM/oIY1TQSj-G4/s1600/IMAG1289.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hmnuKmhsBiE/UvTgx3rsqjI/AAAAAAAAQvM/oIY1TQSj-G4/s1600/IMAG1289.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;The 'recording history' section of the FamilySearch interactive display, Rootstech 2014. Photographer, M. Diane Rogers</div><br />It was amazing to see how fast the Expo Hall displays took shape in the short time till the Hall opened. Lots of opportunities then to ask vendors questions, and in many cases to actually try out websites like Ancestry, Find My Past and My Heritage, Mocavo and the like, getting search tips from staff.&nbsp; It's really true 'you never know what you might find', it seems. I use these sites regularly, and while checking out the <a href="https://www.mocavo.com/" target="_blank">Mocavo</a> booth, I entered a few of my (better) names and found something I never noticed there before. It may be really new as Mocavo is adding thousands of records a day apparently; I made a note to check that out further later.<br /><br />If you know me, you'll know I was heading for the books pretty quickly and I did buy a few over at <a href="http://www.maiasbooks.com/" target="_blank">Maia's Books</a>, including the newly released Board for Certification of Genealogists <i>Genealogy Standards </i>manual. Like many, she was offering conference deals, something to remember if you attend next year. I'm angling for a sale priced FamilyTree DNA test for Valentine's Day! <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bVjzLvHy21s/UvTifgc6x1I/AAAAAAAAQvY/tZBKI0FczcY/s1600/IMAG1316.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bVjzLvHy21s/UvTifgc6x1I/AAAAAAAAQvY/tZBKI0FczcY/s1600/IMAG1316.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Maia's Genealogy and History Books booth, Rootstech 2014. Photographer, M. Diane Rogers.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Randy Seaver is keeping a list of all the <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/02/rootstech-2014-blog-compendium.html" target="_blank">Geneabloggers' Rootstech articles here at GeneaMusings</a>. Do check those out. Everyone has a different perspective. Of special interest to many, will be the <a href="http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/2014/02/rootstech-ancestrycom-blogger-breakfast.html" target="_blank">Ancestry Insider's report from the intimate Ancestry.com breakfast </a>that he attended. (Yes, the Insider is a real, and not an always invisible, person.)</div>M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-77470316780476650922014-02-06T05:22:00.001-08:002014-02-06T05:22:37.983-08:00RootsTech 2014 - First Day! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vCV7ne_ApnQ/UvOIpI5uHgI/AAAAAAAAQvA/UDYrw98R4lw/s1600/2014-02-05+10.04.12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vCV7ne_ApnQ/UvOIpI5uHgI/AAAAAAAAQvA/UDYrw98R4lw/s1600/2014-02-05+10.04.12.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div>Just a quick note this morning. Lots of excitement as today is the first day of RootsTech 2014! I'm leaving soon as we geneabloggers will have a sneak peak at the Expo Hall before the official opening. The Expo Hall is big! And full of exhibitors with products from cloud services to software to genealogy databaxes and sites, even books! FamilySearch will be there, of course, and Ancestry.com, Find My Past and My Heritage, but there are many smaller companies too, including the finalists for the Developer's Challenge.<br /><br />FamilySearch will be featuring the new Indexing programme and giving all a look at the new software that's coming. And for FamilySearch, this is the Year of the Obituary and so on and off today a special person, the pirate Captain Jack Starling, will be promoting obituary indexing. Obituaries are treasure troves to genealogists, after all! <br /><br />Lots of opportunities to see new (and old) things demonstrated, record a family story or scan some photos, and purchase some new software, a souvenir, or some books. (Yes, 'real' books.)<br /><br />Almost ready - let's see: phone, portable charger, name tags, my postcards to hand out, lunch ticket, water bottle, purple blogger beads! Yes, I'm good to go!<br /><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-8668426974782308392014-02-05T06:05:00.002-08:002014-02-05T06:05:34.932-08:00Get Ready to Watch Rootstech 2014 From Home!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yb4pwRMsPRI/UvJCPBjdxCI/AAAAAAAAQus/LZApnkB6CaY/s1600/IMAG1262.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yb4pwRMsPRI/UvJCPBjdxCI/AAAAAAAAQus/LZApnkB6CaY/s1600/IMAG1262.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></div><br />Over at the British Columbia Genealogical Society website: <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/?p=4210" target="_blank">www.bcgs.ca</a> I've posted the Rootstech 2014 streaming session schedule and information links as we did for last years' conference. You will be able to watch fifteen streamed sessions for free at home starting tomorrow; Wednesday, February 6th, 2014. Handouts for all sessions can be downloaded free now. You'll only miss out on the beautiful snow here in Salt Lake City, Utah.<br /><br />There will be lots of news on Facebook about Rootstech too. Look for Rootstech 2014 posts and the hashtag #Rootstech there as on on Twitter - and follow the <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/?p=4216" target="_blank">Twitter messages on the BCGS website</a>. You do not need to be signed up to Twitter to see these, just follow this BCGS link above to read what people are saying from and about Rootstech. Many of us will be tweeting live from conference sessions so you will get a real sense of what's going on even in sessions that aren't being streamed. If you are on Facebook and / or Twitter, ask questions and comment as you watch at home.&nbsp;<br /><br />And if you want to know more about using Twitter, after you've seen how it works for Rootstech, then come to one of our BCGS Twitter for Genealogy sessions this month. Also free! <a href="http://www.bcgs.ca/?p=3986" target="_blank">Just see the Twitter class registration info on the BCGS website</a>. <br /><br />Photograph, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 2014, M. Diane Rogers.M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10606601.post-72814855906804202932014-02-04T23:34:00.000-08:002014-02-04T23:34:10.942-08:00RootsTech 2014 Begins! Well, here I am in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA with a whole lot of other excited genealogy and family history types. So excited am I that I forgot my own blogger anniversary yesterday. It's 9 years this year; next year's <i>TIN</i>! Thank you for all the messages.<br /><br />Some here are excited, of course, because we've had a few research days at the FamilySearch Family History Library and have already met up with others we know to talk genealogy.<br /><br />On Monday I was one of the guests on <a href="http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/p/mondays-with-myrt.html" target="_blank"><i>Mondays with Myrt</i> </a>which was broadcast right from the third floor of the Family History Library. I got to talk about women's history with Myrt, one of my all time favourite subjects. As those who watch DearMYRTLE know, she always has some breaking news. We had a tidbit from FamilySearch&nbsp; - involving a celebrity. (I'm guessing a cheerful, family friendly comic character, one who's already had<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duck_Family_%28Disney%29" target="_blank"> his family tree</a> almost done, and whose known family lines are pretty well documented and cited.) We also heard about the <a href="http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/home" target="_blank">NGS / National Genealogical Society</a>'s new online course on Documentation and Citation with Michael Hait and an NGS field trip to the Allen County Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 20 to 23 August 2014.&nbsp; Both sound great.<br /><br />While at the Library, I've been searching through 17th and 18th century Somerset, England records (mostly) especially tax and voting records. I've found some new info on a few of my favourite ancestors and family connections (including Elizabeth Ann Adams and Henry Parker of Backwell and Nailsea who some of you have heard about recently) and I've added two more generations of family members to one line. Hope to sneak more research time in this week; I'll be at the Library late Friday night for sure. I brought a research plan and a backup plan and so far all went according to Plan A. So Friday I might get to Plan B.<br /><br />Tomorrow <a href="https://rootstech.org/" target="_blank">Rootstech 2014</a> begins with the<a href="https://rootstech.org/schedule-info/innovator-summit/" target="_blank"> Innovator Summit </a>(formerly called Developer Day). I'm so looking forward to hearing about what's coming in the tech end of genealogy for searches, software, DNA studies and beyond. See <a href="http://canadagenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/01/rootstech-2014-getting-closer.html" target="_blank">my personal conference session schedule here</a>. And I certainly want to see Who's Who in the Rootstech 2014 Developer Challenge. In 2013, the winner was Tammy Hepps for her innovative story line product, <a href="https://www.treelines.com/" target="_blank">Treelines</a>. You can read <a href="http://b.treelines.com/how-rootstech-became-the-birthplace-of-treelines/" target="_blank">about her here</a>. The Challenge was one of the 'missing pieces' last year for me. I thought the competition Developers didn't get featured strongly enough, so I'm glad to see that Tammy is being recognized in this year's promotions.<br /><br />After the Summit, I'll be attending a FamilySearch dinner and I expect to hear much more about the scope and background to<a href="https://familysearch.org/blog/en/familysearch-works-put-worlds-historical-records-online-generation/" target="_blank"> today's announcement on FamilySearch's partnership initiatives and <i>"collaborative agreements"</i>.</a> (So far, as announced, these are with Ancestry.com, Archives.com, Find My Past.com, Fold 3, and My Heritage. Three of those companies are, I think, quite closely related.) As both a FamilySearch patron and volunteer, I have a number of questions myself about what's happening. I know others do too. Many of us will be blogging the news as we hear and understand it - tomorrow and throughout Rootstech 2014, so do stay tuned. <br /><br /><br /><br />M. Diane Rogershttps://plus.google.com/102671082427686962693noreply@blogger.com0